What phishing is

Phishing is generally done through email, advertisements, or by locales that appear to be like destinations you as of now utilize. For instance, somebody who is phishing may send you an email that resembles it’s from your bank with the goal that you’ll give those data about your ledger. Phishing emails or sites might ask for:

Account usernames and passwords, including password changes

Social Security numbers

Bank account numbers

PINs (Personal Identification Numbers)

Credit card pin numbers

Your mother’s maiden name

Your birthday

Important: Google or Gmail will never solicit you to give this sort from data in an email.

How to Report phishing emails

When Google email identifies that a massage may be phishing, it might show you a warning or move the email to Spam folder. If an email was marked wrong, follow the steps below to mark or unmark it as phishing mails.

Report a phishing mail

On your device, Sign-in Gmail.

Open the email.

Next to Reply section, click the Down arrow button.

Click Report phishing email.

An email was incorrectly marked as phishing email

On a computer, signing Gmail.

Open the email.

Next to Reply button, click the Down arrow tab.

Now click Report not phishing.

Avoid phishing attacks

Be careful anytime you get an email from a website asking your personal information. If you get this type of email:

Never click any links or provide personal information until you’ve confirmed the email is real.

If the sender has a Google email address, report the Gmail abuse to Google.